| | Violent clashes inside Anantnag college | | Teargassing, lathi-charge on protesting students | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Clashes occurred between students and police and security forces at boys degree college Khanabal in Anantnag district after police hoisted tricolour during a sports event in college campus.
The protesting students set ablaze tent, pelted stones and the cops burst smoke shells and resorted to lathi-charge.
Reports said that the hoisting of tricolour infuriated the students who objected the move. They set ablaze a tent and also... |  | |
| | | Abrogation of Art of 35-A will be disaster: Farooq | | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Opposition National Conference (NC) President and former Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah Wednesday asserted that abrogation of Article 35-A will not be less than a ‘disaster’ for the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Addressing NC’s core group meeting at Nawai Subh here, Farooq said that the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are duty bound to protect their rights and stand up against any move aimed at changing the demo... | | |
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| | Principal attached; GCW Parade students call off protests | | Andotra appointed as in-charge principal | | | JAMMU, Aug 23: The agitating students of Government College for Women (GCW) Parade Wednesday called off their protest against alleged “harassment” and “imposition of dress code” after the Principal Prof Anita Sudan was attached with Director College Higher Education department till pending enquiry ordered by the department into the allegations.
Geetanjali Andotra had been posted as incharge- principal of the college.
Earlier, the college stude... | | |
| | | Mobile phones recovered from Baramulla jail inmates | | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Twenty mobile phones and some incriminating material was allegedly recovered from the inmates of the Baramulla Jail in north Kashmir, officials said here today.
“Police and jail authorities recovered 20 mobile phones and other incriminating material during a search at Baramulla jail,” a senior police officer said.
He said a case has been registered in this regard and investigations are in progress.
The officer did not give a... | | |
| | | Kashmiri children given gun instead of pen under conspiracy: CM | | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti today said a “vicious atmosphere was created” in which “Kashmiri children have been given guns in hands instead of pens.”
Speaking at a function in Kulgam, she said that in the whole world children are given pen and book in their hands, but unfortunately here an atmosphere was created wherein “our children have been given gun and stone in hands instead of pen and book.”
She said that a gun costs... | | |
| | Article 35-A row | | Separatists announce protest programme | | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: The joint separatist leadership of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik today announced a protest programme on Article 35-A issue. They have called for a general strike on August 29 and a spontaneous agitation if supreme court passed any adverse orders against the Article during a hearing on that day.
“Any meddling with state subject law is only aimed at changing the demography of Jammu Kashmir. ... | | |
| | | Shah attacked in Delhi court lockup: DFP | | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) today said its detained chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah was today attacked by inmates in Patiala Court police lockup. He had to appear in the court of Siddharth Sharma.
A party spokesperson in a statement said that Shah was brought from Tihar jail on Wednesday morning and was lodged in Patiala Court lockup room where other prisoners who were also to be produced before the court conspired to attack him... | | |
| | | Shah's judicial custody extended | | | | NEW DELHI, Aug 23: A court here on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, arrested on charges of money laundering.
Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma extended Shah's judicial custody till August 31.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Shah on July 25 on charges of money laundering in a case dating back to 2005 where the Delhi Police Special Cell arrested hawala dealer Muhammad Aslam Wani... | | |
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| | Geelani criticises mainstream politicians | | Asks them to apologise and join separatist movement | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman Hurriyat Conference(G), today criticised the mainstream political parties in the state for their double standards on Article 370 and Article 35-A.
Addressing the executive meeting of Hurriyat here, he alleged that these very parties have damaged the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in connivance with government of India and are planning to do the same right now.
He asked Hurriyat leaders and... | | |
| | | 5 policemen injured in accident | | | | SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Five police men were injured when their vehicle met with an accident on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in south Kashmir district of Pulwama today, official sources said.
They said the vehicle overturned at Chandpora, Pampore, resulting in injuries to five of them. The injured were admitted to Police Control Room (PCR) hospital in Srinagar. Their condition is said to be stable.
Reports said that the police vehicle of dist... | | |
| | | Flag meeting: India tells Pak to stop cross-border terrorism, infiltration | | | | POONCH, Aug 23: Army today yet again told the Pakistan Army to refrain from abetting cross-border terrorism and infiltration.
Also, at a battalion commander-level flag meeting at Chakkan-Da-Bagh in the Poonch Sector at about 11 AM today, two sides agreed to exercise restraint along the 778-km Line of Control.
They also decided to keep channels of communication open between local commanders.
Official spokesman said, "In the 50-minute meeting h... | | |
| | | Cop suspended for taking money from vendors | | | | BANIHAL, Aug 23: Taking cognizance to a viral video clip in which a cop is grabbing money from some roadside vendors in Bus Stand, police claimed to have registered a case against their own Head Constable, Ramban and issued suspension orders.
As per details on August 22, 2017, a video clip of a drunken cop surfaced on different social network sites in which a cop was demanding and gathering money from two women roadside vendors in Ramban market... | | |
| | Rohingya Refugees challenge preventive detention | | HC directs Jail authorities to provide access to relatives | | | | JAMMU, Aug 23 (JNF): In three separate Habeas Corpus petitions filed by Burmese Rohingya Muslims, High Court (Jammu Wing) issued notices to Principal Secretary Home Department J&K Government, Director General of Police J&K, ADGP (CID) J&K, Director General (Prisons), District Magistrate Jammu, Senior Superintendent of Police Jammu and Superintendent District Jail Jammu, returnable in the week commencing September, 11, 2017.
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| | | Pak using India as excuse to support terrorist groups: US | | | | WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Agencies): Pakistan is using a perceived threat of encirclement by India as an "excuse" to continue its support to terrorists, a Trump administration official has said, dismissing concerns over Indian development activities in the war-torn country.
"What India is doing in Afghanistan is not a threat to Pakistan. They are not building military bases. They are not deploying troops," National Security Council (NSC) spokesman Mi... | | |
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| M Raju gets addl charge of CEO, SPV for Jammu | | JAMMU, Aug 21: The state government today assigned charge of the Chief Executive Officer, Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), for Jammu and Kashmir regions.
As per Government Order No.1080-GAD of 2017, Dated:21-08-2017, M Raju, IAS (JK:2005), Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation, shall, in addition to his own duties, hold the charge of the post of Chief Executive Officer, Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), for Jammu City for implementation of Smar... | | > Jitendra Kumar new SMVDSB CEO | | > 5 Dy SP shifted | | > HC dismisses plea against induction of 9 KPS in IPS | | > Govt orders minor reshuffle in Adm | | > Thick security blanket in Jammu for I-Day |
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| Row over Art 35A nearing flash point in Kashmir | Mohammad Sayeed Malik
'You have saved Kashmir for India'. That was how a greatly relieved Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru, instantly responded to the telephonic report flashed to him by his IB chief, BN Mullick, on January 4, 1964, that Prophet Mohammad's Holy (Hair) Relic stolen from Hazratbal shrine, Srinagar, had been recovered.
Fifty-three years later, today, a similar situation, sparked by the furious controversy over the fate of Art 35A of the Constitution ... | | > Cold Walls..! - By Robert Clements | | > Farmers suicides soar on freedom anniversary - By Moin Qazi | | > Be shy, yet sell well..! - By Robert Clements | | > Need for PM to translate his words into action to solve Kashmir problem - By Brij Bhardwaj | | > Creating history, through fiction..! - By Robert Clements |
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